Tree removal in Whitwell, TN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 9 storm reports near Whitwell that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 17, 2024; July 8, 2022; and May 24, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 780 households live in Whitwell. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1979.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Whitwell, averages 63 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 12 at or below 20°F.

Ice, snow and broken limbs

Source: NOAA Climate Normals

Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 3 electric utilities with service territory in Marion County, among them City of Chattanooga and Duck River Elec Member Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024